Most horror movie fans are content to watch bloodshed unfold on the big screen, but Brian Trimble and Blaine Norris, partners in a low-budget horror movie, went far beyond make-believe.

After their failed movie-making efforts landed Norris $18,000 in debt, the two executed the gruesome murder of Trimble's wife, Randi, on Jan. 10, 2003, with the aim of splitting her $100,000 insurance policy.

Norris hid in the couple's East Pennsboro Township home and waited for Randi to come home from work. In exchange for $20,000 from the life insurance policy, police said he stabbed her 21 times and strangled her with an electrical wire, while her husband was out at dinner.